Δαύνιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Δαύνιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Δαύνιον, πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων “ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δαύνιοι, καὶ Δαυνία τὸ θηλυκόν, καὶ Δαυνική κατὰ συγκοπὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ Δαυνιᾶται, καὶ Δαυνιατικός. ἔστι καὶ Δαύνιον τεῖχος πόλις Θρᾴκης. ὁ πολίτης Δαυνιοτειχίτης.

Daunion: a city in Italy. Lykophron: ‘built beyond Lakion and Daunion’. The ethnonym is ‘Daunioi’, the feminine ‘Daunia’; also ‘Daunike’, by syncope from ‘Dauniatai’, and ‘Dauniatikos’. There is also Daunion Teichos, a city in Thrace. The citizen is a ‘Daunioteichites’.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#33
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 221.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-07
Word count	36
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Λυκόφρων (Lycophron)	(1254)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δαύνιον	Daunium (city) · place · corrected · Q5212553
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Λατίνοι	Latins · people
Δαύνιοι	Daunians · people
Δαυνία	Daunia (feminine ethnicon) · people
Δαυνική	Daunike (ethnic adjective/form) · people
Δαυνῖται	Daunitai (ethnic form, shortened) · people
Δαυνιάται	Dauniatai (ethnic form) · people
Δαυνιατικός	Dauniatic (adjectival) · other
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Δαυνιοτειχίτης	Daunioteichites (citizen of Daunium) · other
Δαύνιον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q5212553 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	[According to] Lycophron: "settled for/inhabited by the Latin Daunii." (i.e. the town is named from or associated with the Daunii people who settled it)
Morphological Composition	The ethnic/demonym is Δαύνιοι, the feminine Δαυνία, and Δαυνική. (forms of the name indicating how derivatives are formed)
Morphological Composition	"and Δαυνῖται" by contraction (syncope) from "Δαυνιᾶται." (explains the shorter form as a morphological contraction of the fuller ethnic name)

Links

Place links	Daminon Teichos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_049.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	τεῖχος τό gloss:e184afb0551538f4	wall, fortification, barrier Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.358

char LCS 54 (28.1%) · word LCS 9 (26.5%)

Stephanos

Δαύνιον, πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων “ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δαύνιοι, καὶ Δαυνία τὸ θηλυκόν, καὶ Δαυνική κατὰ συγκοπὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ Δαυνιᾶται, καὶ Δαυνιατικός. ἔστι καὶ Δαύνιον τεῖχος πόλις Θρᾴκης. ὁ πολίτης Δαυνιοτειχίτης.

Herodian

…, παρωξύνετο, καθότι τρίβραχυ. Θρόνιον, Σπήλιον. Ὄβριον τὸ ὄρος. Κούριον πόλις Κύπρου ἀπὸ Κουρέως τοῦ Κινύρου παιδός. Ἡρόδοτος πέμπτῃ (c. 113). ἔστι καὶ πόλις Αἰτωλίας. Χώριον ἡ πόλις, ἐπὶ γὰρ ὑποκοριστικοῦ παροξύνεται. Δαύνιον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων (v. 1254) «ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην». Οἴνιον. Σέστιον πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Οἰνωτρῶν. Αἴγιον πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Εὔδοξος ἐν ἕκτῃ. Σούνιον δῆμος Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. Ὅμηρος δὲ ἄκρον καλεῖ «ἀλλ´ ὅτε Σούνιον ἄκρον» (Od. γ 278). Δώριον πόλις Μεσσηνίας μία τῶν τριῶν, ὧν …